"Roadside bomb kills 3 Iraqi soldiers, bystander" by Sameer N. Yacoub, Associated Press Writer | July 31, 2010
BAGHDAD --A roadside bomb killed three Iraqi soldiers responding to an earlier blast Saturday in an area south of Baghdad, officials said. One bystander was also killed....
Attacks against Iraq's U.S.-trained security forces have helped undermine public confidence and have sown instability at a delicate time....
Washington is intent on moving ahead with a U.S. troop withdrawal that will leave Iraqi forces on their own....
So we are no longer worried about "terrorists" or the rest of that BS, huh?
Need the soldiers for another war somewhere else.
Also Saturday, a website linked to Saddam Hussein's now-outlawed Baath party posted an audio recording purportedly from a former top deputy of the late Iraqi dictator claiming that the party was "leading the fight to liberate" Iraq.
Related: When Seeing and Hearing Isn't Believing
I don't anymore, not when it is in an AmeriKan newspaper.
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the highest-ranking at-large member of Saddam's regime, is believed to be playing a key role in financing Sunni insurgents. He has a $10 million bounty on his head.
The authenticity of the recording could not immediately be verified. If real, it would be evidence that al-Douri, a former vice president long thought to be suffering from cancer, remains alive more than seven years after he went into hiding in the immediate aftermath of the fall of Saddam's regime.
If real evidence is the whole Iraq escapade all over, Americans.
And if this guy had cancer he's as dead as bin Laden.
You need treatment for that stuff, and you don't get it dodging security services.
In the recording, al-Douri said....
The last audio clip by al-Douri, whose whereabouts is unknown, was released in March.
In that recording, he addressed Arab leaders gathered in Libya for a summit, calling on them to recognize insurgents in Iraq as the sole legitimate representatives of the Iraqi people and saying they should represent Iraq at the summit.
Meanwhile, new information surfaced Saturday about a roadside bombing a day earlier that killed five members of a family driving in Diyala province north of the capital.
A police spokesman said the head of the family was a local leader of a government-backed group of Sunni militiamen known as Awakening Councils.
The group's fighters rose up against al-Qaida militants in late 2006 and 2007, first joining the U.S. military in its fight against the terror network and later working with the Shiite-led Iraqi government.....
I heard they escaped from prison.
And I think I know why this took the cut:
In a separate development, Hands Off Cain, an Italian group opposed to the death penalty, said in a report released yesterday that the number of executions in Iraq rose dramatically last year. Iraq put at least 77 people to death, the group said in a report.
Iraq is now among the world's top executioners for the first time since the 2003 fall of Saddam Hussein, the report said
Related: Occupation Iraq: Resurrecting Saddam Hussein
Don't need to.
Also see: Iraqi government expected to stay gridlocked into fall (By Ernesto Londono, Washington Post)
That's what webbers got in their edition.
